Of course, Hyunwoo was the owner of Blue Pine, but nobody knew it.
"How about having boiled pig's feet?"
"Oh, I love that, too."
Yu Zuung called a nearby restaurant to get it delivered.
It was almost 11 pm when the food was delivered to the villa. As both had to work until late at night that day, they were just now having dinner.
"Looks like I had too much."
"Me, too. Shall we have a walk outside?"
"Sounds good."
Both went out for a walk for an hour and came back.
Hyunwoo felt he had better hit the sack now.
"I feel tired. How about going to bed now?"
"Let me clean this up first. I'll see you in a minute."
The next morning, Yu Zuung got up earlier than Hyunwoo to prepare breakfast.
She usually prepared toasted bread for breakfast.
After having a quick breakfast, Hyunwoo took a flash drive out of his laptop, which contained the test results of solar batteries.
He noticed the restaurant's ads flyers on top of solar batteries. The flyers had magnetic pads in the back. Yu Zuung obviously put them there while she was putting up the food.
That might change the test outcomes.
But he didn't take that too seriously because solar batteries would not be broken by that. Some of the test data could be briefly affected by that.
He connected the USB to the laptop again and compared the test results as usual.
Today there were some changes in the test value. Most likely the saved power amount was reduced as the ads flyers hid the solar cell from the sunshine.
He didn't care, though, but an idea flashed into his mind at that moment.
"Ads flyer? Magnet? Magnetic field?"
Magnets created a magnetic field. Electricity also created magnetic fields. Magnetic and electric fields interfered with each other. Hyunwoo felt perhaps that magnets affected solar cells.
Of course, he could be wrong. But they were starting with most research with hope for a 0.01% probability.
He raced to STM Research Center and told its chief about what he witnessed a minute ago.
The chief showed a strong interest in it.
"Of course, that could affect solar cells. Let me intensively work on the role of a magnetic field."
After seeing him, Hyunwoo headed back to his office.
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Then he heard pretty shocking news while watching the TV. It was about the chairman of OneStar, Mr. Morgan.
Hyunwoo's jaw dropped at the news. In other words, Morgan created the whole scam to deceive the public and the press with a fake Toughtex engine.
Morgan clearly concluded there was no future for Morgan Energy, so he sold its stocks and escaped somewhere.
Morgan Energy plunged in a big chaos. Though the Super Green gasoline was widely sold around the world, the stocks of Morgan Energy plummeted on the stock market.
With a bitter smile, Hyunwoo murmured to himself, 'What a swindler! I wonder if he can live comfortably during the remainder of his life. He'll be caught by the police anyway.'
Anyway, he felt reassured to hear that news because the Toughtex engine his father developed would have a guaranteed future.
He was determined to put spurs to the ongoing research on the solar cells.
***
"Whew~"
Hyunwoo let out a long sigh after getting in his car.
It was already 11 pm. He worked nonstop since 9 am that morning without taking any break.
This kind of hectic schedule had been going on for three days now. Fortunately, he came back home a bit early. A few days ago, he hung out with his school alumni late into the night. Last night, he attended a drinking party last night with broadcasters that he used to know.
Hyunwoo was 46 this year. No matter how much he tried to stay fit, he was physically exhausted.
When he got home, he saw his house was dark with all the lights turned off.
'Did she go to bed early tonight?'
Hyunwoo cautiously slipped into the house not to wake her up.
When he stepped into the living room, he noticed Yu Zuung.
She crouched on a sofa, apparently weeping.
Startled, he approached her quickly.
"What's the matter with you? What happened?"
She suddenly hugged him and burst out sobbing, "Why can't I have a baby? Why? Boohoo."
He felt the prick of conscience to hear that. Though he tried to stay calm, he couldn't.
Just like her, he was feeling deep sorrow. Perhaps she might feel it much more sharply.
He felt sorry for her. In fact, she stopped her entertainment activities to get pregnant, but he didn't make as much of an effort.
He spent most of his time working outside, with various excuses such as work, appointments with VIPs, etc.
Maybe his passion for her had cooled down.
During the honeymoon period, he couldn't go to sleep until he had sex with her. But not now.
He had sex with her occasionally these days.
Of course, that didn't mean he didn't love her.
He hugged her deeply and said, "I'm sorry, honey."
"No, I'm sorry. I wish I had a baby for you and your parents, but I can't no matter how hard I try. Looks like I won't ever have a baby..."
"Don't say that."
Hyunwoo cut off her words quickly. He didn't want to hear her reproaching herself because he felt he was so broken-hearted to hear it.
If one of them was to blame for that, Hyunwoo felt he was the main culprit.
"It's my fault. I think I should have made more effort on my end. Let me try harder from now on. So, don't blame yourself."
But Yu Zuung couldn't stop sobbing. It seemed the sobbing she held back until then kept bursting out.
He just hugged her quietly.
He felt sad and empty at the same time.
To him, it didn't matter how much money he had or how high social prestige or reputation he had.
Happiness started from family, to say the least. No matter how big of an achievement one made, one's life could not be happy when one's family was not happy.
'Why didn't I devote myself to my family?'
In fact, he tried his best on his part. He built many villas around the country to travel and stay with her there.
But he couldn't take the time out for her.
In hindsight, that was the most regrettable thing to him.
But what's most important to him was whether he could change his current lifestyle.
With her wrapped in arms still, Hyunwoo called his chief secretary.
"Please cancel all my appointments for the next 15 days. I'm going to take a vacation with my wife."
"Oh my god! 15 days? That's a bit problematic. You have an appointment with the President next Tuesday."
Chapter end
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